The Daily Count of Lives

746   (six fell in love more than four times)
673   (twenty had no regrets)
714   (five could still feel their first kiss)
643  (twenty-seven looked at photos of their loved one each morning)
547   (seven had contagious laughter)
517   (one hundred regretted that their beauty had faded)
468   (thirty-five had worked in the same job all their lives)
573   (eight had won awards for their service to others)
375   (seventy-five had been brokenhearted)
817   (had touched a million souls)
917   (all had been loved by someone)

Born 1964 (Liverpool, England) to a difficult birth, David Mellor didn’t find his voice until his youth. Years of thinking he was nobody and treated as such, including a period of homelessness in the desperate Thatcher years. However, he hit the paper—papering over the scars, finding understanding and belief through words. He has been published and has performed widely in many venues including the BBC, the Tate, galleries and pubs, and everything in between. His poems are autobiographical, others topical, and several, his take on life.